Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
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The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump
By Rob GarverThings have looked grim for Donald Trump’s future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician. But on Wednesday, the cracks in the edifice of his public standing were really...
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Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says
As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
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Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies
By Rob GarverIf the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...
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What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling
By Rob GarverNow, well past six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the construction industry would like to know where those infrastructure dollars he promised are. While a slowly improving economy has been...
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Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom
By David Lawder, ReutersThe Trump administration has set a collision course with the auto industry as it launches renegotiations of the 23-year-old NAFTA trade pact this week, aiming to shrink a growing trade deficit with...
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One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again
By Rob GarverThe effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
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White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis
By Rob GarverNazi rallies are like the big, fat hanging curveball of American politics -- the sort of pitch any minimally competent public figure can put in the cheap seats without even thinking about it. But...
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Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?
By Rob GarverAfter President Trump made brief remarks on Saturday related to the violent white nationalist protest in Virginia, the country saw something that it hadn’t seen in a while: a full-blown stampede of...
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What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea
By Rob GarverIs Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.
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Trump Does Have Real Connections to Russia—and Here’s Why
When President Trump handed foreign policy over to his generals a few weeks ago, his plans for a new détente with Russia were dead in the water, and Secretary of State Tillerson was more or less out...
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Trump Admits He Made Decision to Fire FBI Director Prior to DOJ Recommendation
By Rob GarverContradicting his own vice president as well as the White House press office, President Trump said in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Thursday that he had made up his mind to fire former...
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The Inside Story on Why Trump Decided to Fire Comey
By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker and Sari Horwitz and Robert Costa, The Washington PostEvery time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia. Trump...
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Trump: I Can End Obamacare Health Insurer Subsidies ‘Anytime I Want’
By Rob GarverIn an interview with The Economist President Trump went further than he or anyone in his administration has before, suggesting that he might eliminate cost sharing reduction payments on a whim, and...
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Special Prosecutor? Independent Counsel? Special Counsel? What’s the Difference?
By Rob GarverThe firing of FBI Director James Comey by President Trump Tuesday, with the agency in the midst of investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russian intelligence, has increased calls from...